Excavations 2018

This is a temporary blog for presenting the excavations of 2018 at Perdigões. Posts from 2011 to 2017 are still available.

Sunday, 2 August 2015

091 – Day 21

Today is resting
day and also team shift. In the past two weeks, most of the goals were
achieved.

In sector
H, the excavation of ditch 11 is a hard task, since the layers are very clayish
and dry, hard to excavate. But the results show now, behind doubts, that the
top layers of the filling date from Late Neolithic. So Perdigões was a large
enclosure since that period (please, quote properly if you use this information.
It is becoming a habit to forget it). This is a result extremely important for
the interpretation of this site and for the emergence of the enclosures
phenomena in Southwest Iberia.

More to the
center, in sector P, dicht 7 is getting deeper and providing human remains
mixed with animal ones. We should have already reached the bottom according to plan,
but the sequence of deposition makes the excavation slower. As in ditch 11, we
will continue to excavate it,

In sector Q
the circular structure that opens to east is now almost totally exposed. Its
excavation and the excavation of some pits will continue next week. The same
with the definition of the stone structures in the enlarged area of this
sector.

Finally we
will continue the excavation of ditch 10 section in sector O, initiated last
year. Lots of work to do in the coming days. Hope the results are as good as
the ones obtained so far.